Dr. Aladar Csontos is the Director of Fuels at the Nuclear Energy Institute leading the industry's Power Uprate Task Force and Accident Tolerant Fuels Working Group with the goals to increase the amount of carbon-free electricity to the grid and to deploy advanced fuels with increased enrichment and higher burnups with accident tolerant features. Prior to NEI, he was a Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute in the Fuel, Chemistry, Low-Level Waste and High-Level Waste group. Prior to EPRI, he spent 16 years at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in various technical and leadership roles. He led teams of engineers responsible for technical safety reviews of transportation cask designs, spent fuel storage cask designs, independent spent fuel storage renewals and directed multi-disciplinary staff with expertise in non-destructive testing, materials science, and mechanical engineering focused on structural integrity issues of reactor components. Prior to NRC, he worked at the Center for Naval Analyses and conducted operational research studies for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Dr. Csontos received his degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University (B.S) and University of Virginia (Master’s & Ph.D). Some of his awards include the 2006 Joint Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society and Japanese Institute of Metals Young Leader International Scholar Award, 2003 Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Young Leader Professional Development Award, most outstanding technical research paper of 2002 by the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the Professor Robert B. Pond, Sr. Undergraduate Achievement Award. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry School.